Improvement in apparatus for casting metal for metallic baskets



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I W, H. TRISSLER. Improvement in Apparatus for Casting Metals for Metallic Baskets.

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W. H. TRISSLER.

Improvement in Apparatus for Casting Metats for Metallic Baskets.

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f Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,928, dated July 9, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W. H. TRIssLER, of Dunkirk, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented a certain new and Improved Mode of Making Fruit- Baskets, die.; and I do hereby' declare that the following is a full, clear, and` complete description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making part of the same.

SPECIFICATION.

tain design for a casting from which the bas-- ket is made. To said plate is tt-ed a case, in -which is a box for holding the molten metal, and which case constitutes a furnace for fusing the metal or keeping it melted while therein, said metal being allowed to iiow into the mold from the under side of the box on Y moving it along over it.

The following is a more full and complete description of the above said apparatus:

In the drawing, A, Figs. 1 and 3, represents a plate having a smooth level surface, in which is formed the matrix B, of the shape and depth proper for the casting of which the G is a case fitted to the face of said plate, and upon which it slides, it being kept in proper relation therewith by side pieces or guides D, Figs. 1 and 2. In the bottom of the case is a box, E, Fig. 4. Aportion of the side of the case is represented as broken away in order that the box may be seen, and which is also shown in Figs. 5 and 6. In the bottom of the box is a long opening, F, Fig. 5, of which the surface of the -plate forms a bottom. G is a tube, the lower end of which opens into the box, whereas the upper end extends up through the top of the case, as shown in Fig. 4, the purpose of which will presently be shown. The space inside of the case, and surrounding the box, is the furnace in which fuel is placed for melting the metal in the box, and of which a are the draughtholes, and H the ilue or pipe for the escape of the smoke, &c.

The practical operation of the above described apparatus is as follows: The case is stood upon the plate, as shown in Fig. 1, in which position the opening Fin the bottom of the box E will be closed by the plain smooth surface of the plate seen on each side of the matrix B, as at A and Af, Fig. 3. As the bottom of the box iits close to the face of the plate, the metal therein cannot run out, and which metal is fused and continued in a melted state by the re in the furnace or case C. On moving the case forward in the direction indicated by the arrow, the opening in the bottom of the box will pass over the form or matrix B in the face of the plate.; hence the fluid metal will flow out into the form, lilling it even with the surface, but which cannot iow over, as the bottom of the case and box it close down upon the face of the plate; therefore no more metal will run out than sufficient to fill the matrix.- The case, on having passed over the matrix, comes upon the smooth iiat surface A of the plate, and therefore the metal ceases to ow out. The casting in the matrix can now be taken out, which, as a consequence, will be of the same shape and that proper for making a basket, and which is done by turning up the wings I of the casting, which will form the sides of the basket, and B the bottom. The matrix is again iilled by moving the case back over it onto the plain surface Af, from whence it was rst moved. A second casting in this way is made, and so on each time that the case is moved over the matrix a casting for a basket is made.

As fast as the metal in the box isused more is supplied in a liquid or solid form by pouring it into the box through the pipe Gr,

and fuel is introduced into the re place 2. The box E und case C, as arranged in rothrough the hole J, Fig'. 6, which,whe11 not in. "lation to and iu combination with the plate A,

use, is closed by the cover J as and-for the purpose set forth.

Claims. WILLIAM H. TRISSLER. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- Witnesses:

1. The box E, opening F, and tube Gr, in W. H.BURR1DGE, combination with the case 0, in the manner A. F. CORNELL.

as and ,for the purpose set forth. 

